{"256231":{"#nid":"256231","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Clark Joins 1st Milstein Symposium on Creating New Manufacturing Jobs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJennifer Clark,\u0026nbsp;director of the Center for Urban Innovation (CUI), Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and associate professor in the School of Public Policy,\u0026nbsp;has been named to a new commission at the University of Virginia Miller Center that is focusing on job creation for small and medium-sized manufacturers. Part of the Center\u2019s Millstein Symposium, the commission is co-chaired by former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour and former Indiana governor and senator Evan Bayh.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe inaugural agenda will focus on renewing middle class jobs.\u0026nbsp; Three commissions will examine topics in manufacturing, entrepreneurship and self-employment, and infrastructure investment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBarbour said, \u201cThe public has understandably lost confidence in Washington\u2019s ability to generate common-sense, bipartisan solutions to our nation\u2019s challenges. This commission will bring together policymakers, scholars, industry leaders and other stakeholders to craft those solutions\u2014the type of people that can achieve broad consensus and develop actionable ideas, not just more rhetoric.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe commission is expected to release recommendations in February.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther members of the commission on manufacturing includeRebecca O. Bagley, president and chief executive officer, NorTech; Aaron Bagshaw, president, WH Bagshaw Co., Matthew Burnett, founder, Maker\u2019s Row, W. Bernard Carlson, chair, University of Virginia Department of Engineering; John Engler, president, Business Roundtable; former governor of Michigan;James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic; James Manyika, director, McKinsey Global Institute and senior partner, McKinsey \u0026amp; Company; Kate Sofis, executive director, SFMade; Howard Wial, director, Center for Urban Economic Development, University of Illinois, Chicago.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFunding for the initiative was provided by philanthropist, business and civic leader Howard P. Milstein.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore information on the Milstein Symposium is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/millercenter.org\/conferences\/2013\/milstein\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/millercenter.org\/conferences\/2013\/milstein\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJennifer Clark,\u0026nbsp;director of the Center for Urban Innovation (CUI), Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and associate professor in the School of Public Policy,\u0026nbsp;has been named to a new commission at the University of Virginia Miller Center that is focusing on job creation for small and medium-sized manufacturers. Part of the Center\u2019s Millstein Symposium, the commission is co-chaired by former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour and former Indiana governor and senator Evan Bayh.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2013-11-20 13:47:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:25","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"98411":{"id":"98411","type":"image","title":"Jennifer Clark","body":null,"created":"1449178142","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:02","changed":"1475894712","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:12","alt":"Jennifer Clark","file":{"fid":"194105","name":"jennifer_clark_200x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jennifer_clark_200x300.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jennifer_clark_200x300.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":42384,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jennifer_clark_200x300.jpg?itok=koRB_PUl"}}},"media_ids":["98411"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"215","name":"manufacturing"},{"id":"80511","name":"Milstein"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}